What a brilliant way to put it, "theft from the public domain". I'm gonna have to remember that one.

I'm not against nuclear power, but could they have concocted a worse set of motivations? Restarting Three Mile Island to power Microsoft's AI ambitions? Shit reads like something a super villan would cook up.

I wish more sovcits believed that signatures were only valid if signed in blood. At least that would add a touch of creativity to their batshit beliefs.

Feels like I'm receiving the facebook post via morse code.

"The Great Meeting", is that sovcit code for something?

The filibuster has never really been a thought out and considered rule of the senate so much as a fluke of debate rules. It's basically just a loop hole noone has wanted to close since the first senate. Noone's made it easier so much as debate rules have streamlined and the filibuster along with them.

Fuck it, I'd welcome an invasion at this point provided whatever country did it super pinky promised not to do half the shit Republicans do.

I've also ran into some issues simply accessing youtube through my vpn, but that's been going on for a while.

"What the hell do you have to lose" is one of those great little artifact statements from 2016. The kind that kinda could plausibly work for him back when he was a "political outsider" but I don't think it really works on anyone these days.

Even among his cult, there's an understanding and an acceptance of the fact that Trump essentially runs the republican party now. Everyone's bowed down, everyone's paid homage. Almost definitionally now, being in the republican party means you are pro-Trump. That may very well be the only metric upon which GOP politicians are judged in the modern day.

"What the hell do you have to loose" is one of those kinds of statements that worked in the context of "the establishment running the party aren't racist enough don't have your best interests at heart so why not give me a shot?" that comes with a kinda tacit admission that "I'm probably not going to be much better". But in 2024 Trump's just not the outsider anymore. He is the republican establishment.

Among the many other delusions he is clearly trapped in, I think he's also trapped in the delusion that he's some kinda evergreen outsider, despite the fact that he served four years as president and another four basically running the GOP opposition. I think that delusion is not helped by the fact that the republican base is so rabidly anti-intellectual that you kinda have to present yourself as "an outsider" in order to get anywhere, but if it's an outsider your looking for Trump just aint it.

Shit, even if it is a small inside joke or some shit, I can't imagine the conversation nor the thought process that leads to "I'm gonna pose for a camera with a make believe jar of J.D. Vance's jizz. Like, the fuck do you have to be on to think that's even a remotely good idea?

Bro took a long shower I guess.

Absolutely. So much of the right wing media space is inhabited by, funded by, and glorifies grifters that they've created a constant chunk of their audience that is vulnerable to their tactics. Values or policy prescriptions don't even really need to come into it, if you are a grifter it's just a smart business decision to start drifting to the right. It opens up those audiences to you because you are "one of them".

There's also just no creativity. I'm pretty sure I saw a new "let's go Brandon" sign out and about recently. By this point that is very nearly a three year old meme. Like, I'm not really surprised that they can't do better, but it's a little telling that they come up with one thing they think is "good" and stuck with it basically though Biden's entire presidency. "Creatively bankrupt" does not even begin to describe it.

I think it'd also count as a full term in office so far as the rule against running more than twice goes. So you could run for reelection, but that isn't a "one werid trick" to getting three terms in office.

I'm gonna be honest, I was thinking of Dracula flow when I posted this.

Mother fucker could be Dracula for all I care. Still voting for him.

Just to add to this, every plane is vulnerable while on the ground. It doesn't really matter how stealth an aircraft is if your bombarding the hanger they're in with artillery.

But Russia doesn't even really bother with hangers. This plane was just out in the open, on the fucking tarmac, for God, observers, satellites, and anyone else who cared to see. Even stretching a fucking tent over the aircraft would have at least introduced a certain amount of guesswork to the strike. But no, Russia put "the pride of their airforce" out there for everyone to see and paid the price for it.

It's been a while since I've looked at this but not only is such an arrangement impossible without federal input (as the comment from tal states) but I seem to recall seeing that a lot of the counties looking to join the greater Idaho thing are some of the ones most dependent on the Oregon state government for funding. If they did manage to leave then it'd actually probably be a net boon for Oregon in terms of state resources going to places where people actually live.

The resultant Greater Idaho though? Suddenly saddled with a bunch of counties that need a lot of help to maintain services and seemingly a general political attitude of the government shouldn't help people. In my personal opinion it'd turn pretty fucking distopian pretty quick, that is of course assuming that they could somehow get Oregon, Idaho and the federal government to agree to their scheme. I don't think it's going to happen, even if they can get some counties to sign off on it. But if they did the people of those same counties would likely come to regret it not long afterwards.

Also just as a brief note I think my information on this is like more than a year old and I don't think I could find it again to to quote it. So if someone has better/more up to date info that negates anything I've said feel free to post it.

I was nearly born in Tennessee and my parents have some fucking horror stories from when they lived there. I'm shocked that out of all the states to start doing this it's fucking Tennessee.

Those who believe in conspiracy theories have become our conservative party. Some (myself included) would argue they've always been there or that that's always been the nature of the republican party. But the important thing here in the modern day is that the conspiracy theorists now control half of the country's political system.

I'm personally of the opinion that conspiracy theory is the result of a fundamental unwillingness or inability to engage with reality. If that is the case then why on earth would you choose to believe in climate change? It's scary, and an existential threat to humanity if it's taken seriously. Besides, theres a lot of money to be made burning the planet.

I think at the end of the day that's what the American right's denial of climate change boils down to. Everyone in that party participates in some way in denying reality in favor of a collective fantasy. What's one more denial?